Woops, I realised I forgot to send this to the group and I accidently just sent my comments to Hamish instead.
So I'll try again to forward my comments. Regards. Bob Hannent On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 04:25:47AM +0000, Robert Hannent wrote: > > Before I start I'll declare a vested interest as I work in satellite > broadcasting in Europe. Oh, and I might be taking it off topic. Sorry in > advance. :) > > IMHO, Firstly HD over satellite is rather an expensive idea. Most people don't > really need HD and with the bitrate it uses it makes for an expensive > broadcast. But the people will want it and the manufacturers will want to sell > you new hardware to watch it on. > > There is alot of material available for HD in europe because alot of nature > footage is shot with Super 16mm film to maintain quality (amazing forward > thinking for the past 50 years) and this easily works on HD. Also we arn't as > backwards in Europe as some might think, we have many HD facilities houses in > Europe able to process material and we mustn't forget standards conversion as > well. Any HD footage made in the US can be converted to PAL just by using a > nice an expensive standards converter from someone like Snell & Wilcox. No > significant loss in quality, those in Europe will remember the last Olymipics > and the Japanese football (soccer) World Cup which I believe were both > originated partly in HD and converted. > > Alot of US broadcasters don't have nice Standards converters because of the lack > of interest in PAL sourced material, and when we Europeans send material over > to the US we often convert it here to NTSC prior to delivery. A decent facility > in London wouldn't be seen without. > > Please don't think I'm American bashing or NTSC bashing (although I have my > opinions about 'Never Twice Same Colour' :), but I will say I'm not enthused by > HD, especially when they say they want to use it to distribute for E-Cinema. > > Bob > > -- > The first person to violence is the last person to think. > > > > ----- Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------- > Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:50:43 +1100 > From: Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: hdtv & dvb > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:03:28PM +0100, Robert Schlabbach wrote: > > From: "Hamish Moffatt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:35:27PM +0100, Robert Schlabbach wrote: > > > > It's only broadcasting HDTV demo loops, though. But in contrast to > > > > EURO1080 this service is broadcasting "true" 1080i at 59.94 > > > > fields/sec, whereas EURO1080 uses an uncommon 50 fields/sec. > > > > > > Wouldn't 50 fields/sec simply be the PAL rate? > > > > Hmm, ok, I can see how stations who have huge archives of PAL material > > might want to use 50 fields/sec HDTV for easier conversion. But EURO1080 > > isn't such a station, so I don't see why they chose this. In fact, most > > HDTV material available today will likely be 59,94 fields/sec, so IMHO > > EURO1080 made a pretty stupid decision, since they cannot easily purchase > > HDTV shows e.g. from the USA and just broadcast that. > > Why not? We get American shows here (Australia) broadcast in 50 Hz PAL, > as Peter Urbanec said. ER, CSI, Without a Trace, etc. > > It sounds like EURO1080 is targetting the European market, so why > wouldn't they use PAL? How odd. > > Hamish > -- > Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > Info: > To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" > as subject. > > > > ----- End message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- > > -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
